Year 2009 program

Buster Keaton
and
Company

WW I, Dark Comedy, and Film

The 17th Annual Buster Keaton Celebration

Sept 25-26, 2009, Iola, KS

Program for 2009 ---- Last Updated 09/11/2009

All activities are held at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center in Iola, Kansas,. Free.
(donations are very much appreciated-- especially this year)

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Program subject to change.

Friday, Sept 25, 2009 in the main auditorium at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center

Q & A will follow each presentation.

9:30 am Registration begins in the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. ( There are no fees.)

          9:50 am    Welcome and Remarks by Susan Raines, Executive Director, Bowlus Fine Arts Center.

                         Emcee FRANK SCHEIDE,   Prof of Communication, University of Arkansas , Fayetteville

    10:00 am -- TheNational WW I Museum, a video segment from the series Sunflower Journeys, produced by KTWU Ch 11, Topeka

10:10 am -- DAVE MURRAY

WORLD WAR I: Causes and Effects

11:00 am -- Break

11:10 am -- DORAN CART, Curator WW I Museum, Kansas City, MO

LIGHTS, CAMERA, AND REAL ACTION:

The U.S. Army Signal Corps Motion Picture

and Still Photographers' Work, 1917-1919

NOON -- Lunch Break

1:30 pm -- JOHN TIBBETTS, Ph.D. , Professor of Film, University of Kansas

THE WORM'S EYE VIEW:

A Presentation Concerning the 1919 Film, YANKEE DOODLE IN BERLIN

2:20 pm -- LISA K. STEIN, Ph.D., Ohio University-Zanesville

                                        TOMMY'S NEW TUNE:
                                        Warner Brothers' THE BETTER 'OLE (1926) and Redefining American Patriotism

           3:10 pm -- Break

           3:25 pm -- Screening of THE MOVING PICTURE BOYS IN THE GREAT WAR (1975) , produced by David Shepard
                                                      WAR STORY   (2001)

                                                      Introduced by David Shepard

           5:30 pm -- Dinner Break

           7:30 pm -- EVENING PROGRAM

                                                      IT HAPPENED TO YOU

                                                       SHOULDER ARMS (1918)   starring Charlie Chaplin
                                                                   with live musical accompaniment by MARVIN FAULWELL

                                                       THE BOND (1918)   starring Charlie Chaplin
                                                                   with live musical accompaniment by MARVIN FAULWELL

                                                                                    --INTERMISSION--

                                                      ALL NIGHT LONG (1924) starring Harry Langdon
                                                                   with live musical accompaniment by MARVIN FAULWELL

                                                       THE BELLBOY (1918)   starring Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton
                                                                   with live musical accompaniment by MARVIN FAULWELL

                                                       BACK STAGE (1919)   starring Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton
                                                                   with live musical accompaniment by MARVIN FAULWELL

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Saturday, Sept 26, 2009, in the Main Auditorium of at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center

8:30 am -- REGISTRATION (There are no Fees )

9:00 am --

Welcome and Remarks by SUSAN RAINES, Executive director, Bowlus Fine Arts Center

Emcee BILL SHAFFER

KTWU Ch 11, Topeka

9:20 am --JIM BARKLEY, Educational Coordinator, WW I Museum, Kansas City, MO

EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AT THE NATIONAL WW I MUSEUM

9:40 am Screening of MY CAREER AT THE REAR , a documentary by MARTHA JETT on Buster Keaton's WW I career

10:00 am -- DAVID MACLEOD, Keaton historian and founder of Blinking Buzzards Society (UK)

BUSTER AND WAR

          10:50 am --Break

          11:00 am --   ROBERT ARKUS, Film Historian and Archivist

                                         The Liberty Loan Drive, Newsreels and Slapstick,
                                         Comics Go to War: Screening of seldom seen footage
                                        plus rare Keaton on video


           NOON -- Lunch Break

1:00 pm -- Welcome and Introductions/ Emcee -- LISA STEIN, Ph.D., Ohio University -- Zanesville

1:10 pm -- LESLIE MIDKIFF DEBAUCHE, Ph,D., University of Wisconsin -- Stevens Point

BUSTER KEATON FIGHTS THE GREAT WAR

          2:00 pm -- FRANK SCHEIDE, Ph.D., University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

                                CHARLES AND PENNY CHILTON'S, OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR

          2:50 pm -- Break

          3:00 pm. -- Screening of YANKEE DOODLE IN BERLIN (1919), Mack Sennett
                                          --with live musical accompaniment by MARVIN FAULWELL

                            Introduced by David Shepard

        4:00 pm   --   Break

          4:10 pm --   Screening of DOUGHBOYS (1933) -- Buster Keaton Sound Feature

           5:35 pm -- Dinner Break

7:30 pm -- An Evening of Screenings

                          GENERAL NUISANCE (1941) , Buster Keaton Columbia sound short.

                                                      plus short clips and tributes.

                                         Special Presentation, THE LAST AMERICAN SURVIVING WW I VETERAN,
                                                                                a 2008 interview with Mr. Frank Buckles by MARTHA JETT,
                                                                                  Documentary Filmmaker and Keaton Biographer.

                                                                -INTERMISSION--

THE BETTER 'OLE (1926) , starring Syd Chaplin
--with live musical accompaniment by MARVIN FAULWELL